Sweater From Scratch
So I'm going to try a project, completely from scratch. I barely know what I'm doing, but I'm just going to jump into this. So step one is to figure out what kind of sweater I would like to make. After some shopping, I decided on a pattern that I purchased on Etsy. My original idea was a cable-knit sweater -- and I did successfully do a cable-knit panel years ago -- but I like this design, and it looks like it might go a bit faster than cable-knitting. My plan is to get my hands on some raw fleece, wash it, blend it, card it, spin it, and knit it into a sweater. I know a bit about processing raw fleece and spinning...and I "technically" know how to knit. I know the knit stitch, the pearl stitch, and I can knit a square panel! I figure this will take me months to do, maybe a year. If I start now, maybe I'll have something to wear next winter! I'm not very particular about the color, I just want to go for "not white." That should be pretty e...